You may have heard that the Democrat running for Virginia Attorney General wrote some texts wishing violence on his political enemies a few years back. He’s been roundly condemned by the Democratic Party and there’s every likelihood that will lose his race. He’s an idiot. Anyone in politics should certainly know better.
And there’s there are the racist, Hitler-loving Nazi Young Republicans who were revealed yesterday to be such disgusting human beings that it’s genuinely shocking, even today, to read what they said.
JD Vance has thoughts:
I guess firing some school teacher or soldier for merely repeating Charlie Kirk’s own words is speaking truth to power. Interesting. Recall:
The First Amendment protects a lot of very ugly speech but if you celebrate … Charlie Kirk’s death, you should not be protected from being fired for being a disgusting person,” Vance told Fox News. “If you are a university professor who benefits from American tax dollars, you should not be celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death and if you are, maybe you should lose your job or your university should, should face a loss of funding.”
Vance added, “If you are the kind of person who thinks that Charlie Kirk was justifiably murdered, sometimes the government can’t do anything about that. But you know what can — is, is civil society and I’ve actually been gratified to see all these people standing up and saying, ‘Yes, we have free speech and yes, we have free debate, but if you’re, if you’re celebrating the death of a young father, you ought to pay some consequences for it.’”
Young Republican activists celebrating Hitler and chattering about ovens and gassing their political rivals is just college hijinx. No need to “clutch your pearls” over any of that.
I know that even mentioning hypocrisy or double standards is a waste of breath with today’s Republican Party but it’s become so common and is so blatant that I feel as if I have to make note of it once in a while so we don’t become so inured that we don’t notice it anymore.
Get a load of this one:
You can’t make this shit up.
Vance meanwhile, is defending his people. As Brian Beutler notes about the future leaders of the GOP whom Vance defended:
This is, in essence, a private virtual gathering of the right-wing hordes senior administration officials like Vance mingle with online. The extremists they seek to please with gutter rhetoric and real-life violence…
The administration is a content factory for people like that. It explains the state-sanctioned violence and attendant propaganda, but also the Trump campaign’s slandering of Haitian immigrants as people who eat household pets. It’s why the White House finds the racist Hakeem Jeffries In A Sombrero deepfake so useful.
And if they are not reined in by checks and balances and protest movements and journalism, it will soon explain much graver atrocities.
He’s right. Just look at what the next generation of Republican leaders were “chatting” about.